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“Garot has provided deep insight into an inner-city alternative school showing how self identity can change and adjust to the surrounding circumstances and why gang identity is a variable that defies a fixed characterization.”
–Diego Vigil, author of The Projects: Gang and Non-Gang Families in East Los Angeles
“Garot has appreciated what no one has before, the essential shadow quality of urban gangs, which are not so much things one can be in as they are things to be danced around, avoided, played with, and very occasionally, practically invoked. Path breaking and precedent-setting.”
–Jack Katz, author of How Emotions Work
“Who You Claim performs as many “selves” as the compelling young women and men in Garot’s text. Students will engage and learn much from this volume, in courses on qualitative methods, critical ethnography, criminal justice, adolescence, educational studies or human development.
Written with the ink of theory, passion, fine attention to method and ethics, Garot represents with dignity the complex and strategic maneuverings of youth in gangs as he represents with humility the equally complex negotiations of a white guy ethnographer working with, for and beside urban youth.”
--Michelle Fine, co-author of Silenced Voices and Extraordinary Conversations: Re-Imagining Schools
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